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NATION/WORLD Wednesday, July 12, 2017 East Oregonian Emails show Trump Jr. embraced help said to be from Kremlin By CHAD DAY and ERIC TUCKER Associated Press WASHINGTON — Donald Trump’s eldest son revealed Tuesday that he was eager to hear damaging infor- mation about Hillary Clinton from the Russian government, disclosing a series of emails that marked the clearest sign to date that Trump’s campaign was willing to consider elec- tion help from a longtime U.S. adversary. The email exchange posted to Twitter by Donald Trump Jr. showed him conversing with a music publicist who wanted him to meet with a “Russian government attorney” who supposedly had dirt on Clinton as “part of Russia and its government’s support for Mr. Trump.” The messages reveal that Trump Jr. was told the Russian government had information that could “incriminate” Clinton and her dealings with Russia. “I love it,” Trump Jr. said in one email response. As the emails reverberated across the political world, Trump Jr. defended his actions in an interview with Fox News, blaming the deci- sion to take the meeting on the “million miles per hour” pace of a presidential campaign and his suspicion that the lawyer might have informa- tion about “underreported” scandals involving Clinton. Trump Jr. said the meeting “really went nowhere” and that he never told his father about it because there was “nothing to tell.” “In retrospect I probably would have done things a little differently,” Trump Jr. said. Democrats in Congress voiced outrage and insisted the messages showed clear collusion, with California Rep. Adam Schiff, the top Democrat on the House intel- ligence committee, declaring that “all of the campaign’s previous denials obviously AP Photo/Richard Drew Donald Trump Jr. is interviewed by host Sean Hannity on his Fox News Channel television program, in New York Tuesday. Donald Trump Jr. eagerly accepted help from what was described to him as a Russian govern- ment effort to aid his father’s campaign with damaging information about Hillary Clinton, according to emails he released publicly on Tuesday. “In retrospect I probably would have done things a little differently” — Donald Trump Jr. now have to be viewed in a different context.” Yet Republicans — who stand the most to lose polit- ically from Trump’s Russia ordeal — did not join in the condemnation. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said he was confident Senate investiga- tors would “get to the bottom of whatever happened.” And Sen. Susan Collins, a Maine Republican on the intelli- gence committee, cautioned that the emails were “only part of the picture.” Trump Jr., who was deeply involved in his father’s presi- dential campaign, portrayed his decision to release the emails as an effort “to be totally transparent.” In fact, they had already been obtained by The New York Times. Hours after the son posted the emails, the father rose to his defense. “My son is a high quality person and I applaud his transparency,” the president said in a statement read to reporters by White House spokeswoman Sarah Huck- abee Sanders. Although Sanders declined to answer questions about the emails, she stood by the White House’s longstanding insis- tence that no one in Trump’s campaign colluded to influ- ence the election. The messages were the latest disclosure to roil the ongoing investigation into Russia’s interference in the election and potential collu- sion with Trump’s campaign. U.S. intelligence agencies have said the Russian govern- ment meddled in the election through hacking to aid Trump. As congressional commit- tees and Special Counsel Robert Mueller investigate, the emails will almost certainly be reviewed for any signs of coordination with the Kremlin, which the White House and Trump Jr. have repeatedly said did not take place. A spokesman for Mueller, the former FBI director, declined to comment, citing the ongoing investigation. In the emails — dated early June 2016, soon after Trump secured the GOP nomina- tion — music publicist Rob Goldstone wrote to Trump Jr. to connect him to Russian attorney Natalia Veselnits- kaya. Goldstone wrote that the information “would be very useful to your father.” “If it’s what you say I love it especially later in the summer,” Trump Jr. replied in one of the emails. Days later, Veselnitskaya met with Trump Jr. on June 9 at Trump Tower in New York. Veselnitskaya has denied ever working for the Russian government. The emails show Gold- stone telling Trump that singer Emin Agalarov and his father, Moscow-based developer Aras Agalarov, had “helped along” the Russian government’s support for Trump. The elder Agalarov was involved with Trump in hosting the 2013 Miss Universe pageant in Moscow. The two men once also had preliminary discus- sions about building a Trump Tower in Moscow, but they fell through. Trump also appeared in a music video with the younger Agalarov. In his email, Goldstone said that the “Crown pros- ecutor of Russia” offered to provide the information on Clinton to the Trump campaign in a meeting with Aras Agalarov. There is no such royal title in the Russian Federation, but Goldstone — who is British — may have been referring to the title given to state prosecutors in the United Kingdom. Page 9A BRIEFLY 16 dead in Mississippi in worst Marine crash since 2005 ITTA BENA, Miss. (AP) — Investigators picked through debris across a fire-blackened soybean field Tuesday to try to determine why a U.S. military plane slammed into the ground, killing all 16 people aboard in the deadliest Marine crash anywhere in the world in more than a decade. The KC-130 air tanker was carrying members of an elite Marine special operations unit cross-country for training in Arizona when it went down Monday afternoon in the Mississippi Delta, the military said. The fiery crash scattered wreckage for miles around and sent a pillar of black smoke rising over the countryside. Witnesses said they heard low, rumbling explosions when the plane was still high in the sky, saw the aircraft spiraling toward the flat, green landscape and spotted an apparently empty parachute floating toward the earth. Fifteen Marines and a Navy sailor were killed. Their identities were not immediately released. The crash happened outside the small town of Itta Bena, about 85 miles north of the state capital of Jackson. Bodies were found more than a mile from the plane. The Marine Corps said the cause was under investigation. IOC to pick Los Angeles, Paris for 2024 or 2028 Olympics LAUSANNE, Switzerland (AP) — Finally, Los Angeles and Paris have their Olympic hosting destiny in their own hands. If they can agree who goes first, each city will be awarded either the 2024 or 2028 Summer Games. International Olympic Committee members voted unanimously on Tuesday to seek a consensus three-way deal between the two bid cities and the IOC executive board. Talks will open with Paris widely seen as the favorite for 2024. If a deal falls through, only the 2024 hosting rights will be voted on when the IOC next meets, on Sept. 13 in Lima, Peru. However, an agreement seemed assured, judging by the reaction of the two mayors. “I have full confidence that we will get there,” LA Mayor Eric Garcetti said at a celebratory news conference. U.S. inks anti- terror deal with Qatar in press to end dispute DOHA, Qatar (AP) — U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson sealed a deal Tuesday to intensify Qatar’s counterterrorism efforts, tackling a central issue in the spat pitting the besieged Gulf nation against four other American allies lined up against it. Tillerson outlined the agreement at the end of his first visit to Qatar since its neighbors moved to isolate it over grievances, including what they allege is support for extremists. The centerpiece of the visit was the signing of a memorandum of understanding that lays out steps Qatar can take to bolster its fight against terrorism and address shortfalls in policing terrorism funding. Though largely symbolic, the deal allows Tillerson to show some progress in his first major attempt at global mediation as secretary of state, and also bolsters President Donald Trump’s claim to fight terror financing. FIRST-CLASS SERVICE & LOCAL EXPERTISE. 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